The Trigger Effect Page #2

- Don't forget to make your picks.

- Yeah, yeah.

- I mean it!

- Okay.

Hey!

Lock your doors

and windows.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, Rudy!

What's that behind ya?

- Oh!

- She's worse.

- What?

- Her fever! It's worse!

- The power still out?

- Yes!

It's an ear infection. She wigs out

like this when it's an ear infection.

- Will you call the doctor?

- Okay. I'll call the doctor.

This isn't gonna work!

Wait. Wait.

I'm gonna go get the pink stuff.

- Did you talk to him?

- The phone's screwed up. It's makin' this weird noise.

- Really?

- Okay, I'll be back in about 20 minutes.

- Do you want anything while I'm out?

- No. I'm all right.

Due to the power outage,

we cannot accept credit cards...

ATM cards or

personal checks.

Use the smallest bills

you have, please! Thank you!

Come on!

He said he'd call it in

this morning.

The circuits are busy.

He'll keep trying.

Why don't you check back

in a couple of hours?

I know what it is.

It's Amoxicillin...

in the pink liquid

with the little eyedropper.

Maybe you have a refill

on an old prescription?

- Yeah. Can you check the computer?

- No.

Look, um, if you can

just let me have it...

I promise I'll bring in a prescription

when the power's back on.

- I can't do that, sir. I could lose my license.

- I understand.

- I'm not saying that.

- There are other people in line.

Have you ever seen a baby

with an ear infection?

It's really painful. They try and put

their whole fist in their ear.

- It breaks your heart.

- Uh-huh.

We're not talking about morphine.

It's penicillin.

I'm not a physician.

I can't prescribe drugs.

- The law is the law.

- Yeah, but you know me.

- I don't know you.

- What do you mean?

You ask me who you are,

I don't know.

I've been coming since we moved here.

Over a year I've been coming.

What do you want me

to tell you?

I watched you fill

this same prescription three times.

It's on a shelf five feet behind you.

How hard can it be?

You're very insulting.

I'm not insulting you.

I don't like you.

You don't like me?

No. I don't.

I'm not trying

to start a fight.

- Step out of line.

- I am not gonna go home to a sick child...

without the medicine she needs because

of some a**hole who hasn't got his...

I'll tell you what.

You get your skinny

little butt out of my store...

or I'm gonna push your face through

the back of your head.

Thank God.

You got the liquid, right?

- He wouldn't give it to me.

- What?

This idiot pharmacist.

God! This phone!

I got into a fight with the guy.

The doctor couldn't get through...

so he can't give me

the prescription.

Legally, he can't dispense

without the prescription.

Know what he said?

He said he doesn't like me.

- He doesn't like me?

- Matthew!

- Her fever is out of control.

- The phones are going back on soon.

You don't know.

We don't know anything right now.

I tried the car radio.

All I got was static.

- All over the dial.

- I know!

- Just give her to me, will you?

- You don't have to yell.

Give her a cold bath

like the doctor said.

I tried that.

- What are you doing?

- I'm gonna take care of it.

- No. I'll take care of it.

- How?

I don't need the diagnosis.

I have the diagnosis.

I just need someone

to write down the prescription.

I understand. Problem is, Burnside

and St. Joseph lost their backup power.

So we have triple the load

we usually have.

She's in pain.

All she needs is this prescription.

- As soon as possible! I promise, sir!

- Can't somebody, please?

...immediately before you are towed.

Move immediately. You're blocking

the entry by emergency vehicles.

Excuse me. I need help. My mother...

- Ow!

- Sorry.

She's got a terrible fever.

Hello. Hello.

Hello. Hello. Hel... Hello. Hel... Hello.

- Hello. Hello.

- I'll be back to pick you up in ten minutes.

Matt!

The store will be closed

in 30 minutes.

No, you calm down. I've been

writing checks here for 17 years.

Don't give me that "out of stock crap"!

- Have to check that.

- Yeah.

Hey! Hurry up.

Oh, Mr. Pharmacist.

Hey!

Come here.

That guy! Stop him!

- Damn!

- Sir, we have a problem here.

- No problem.

- Hey, hey, hey!

- Let's go, man!

- Get him!

Look out!

Son of a b*tch!

Move aside!

Get out of the car!

3HO... O... Q...

Aw, sh*t!

What is the matter

with people?

- She asleep?

- Yes.

Good.

I'm really sorry

I was a b*tch before.

- You weren't.

- Yeah, I was.

- Well, at least the phones are working again, huh?

- No.

- Well, they got the prescription.

- Not exactly.

Then, why'd they

give you the stuff?

They didn't...

give it to me... exactly.

What do you mean?

What do you think

I mean?

- Matthew!

- Mm-hmm.

- You stole it?

- Mm-hmm.

Oh, my God.

You didn't hurt anybody?

Mmm-no.

- Did anyone recognize you?

- I don't think so.

- I don't like this.

- You like something about it.

- Right here?

- Mm-hmm.

What, what, what?

- There's somebody outside!

- What?

- There's somebody outside. He's looking in the window.

- Where?

Wait here.

I didn't watch you guys

makin' out at all.

What are you doin'

sneaking around out there?

- The bell doesn't work.

- Hey, Joey. How are ya?

- I told ya to stay back there.

- Sorry, Sarge.

Your mail sucks.

Oh, let me get this.

Don't you guys have

any idea what's goin' on?

Yeah, it's a blackout,

right?

- You didn't hear? You don't know?

- Know what?

The Martians have landed. They want

our women. Watch her like a hawk.

- Did you find anything out?

- I got my own theory.

But a guy across the hall says a meteor

landed in the preserve last night.

- But he's lied to me before.

- Don't smoke in the house.

Uh-huh. I'm not.

Guy at the Food King said there was

a meltdown at Indian Point.

The checker

at the Food King said...

Uh-huh. Said that

he saw the meteor.

But that's not our problem.

Our problem is our grid's screwed up.

- Okay, so, how come the phones don't work?

- I don't know.

- Their grid's screwed up too.

- That's all you got? Rumors from the Food King?

Hey, how am I supposed to know?

- How am I gonna know, huh?

- This is such a drag!

Not for me.

Now I got the day off.

So what's goin' on?

I mean, really?

I heard all this stuff about looting

and shootings last night.

Wow. People were killed?

- That's what I heard.

- I don't believe it.

I do, if it's near

where I used to work.

How many?

I heard a lot of different numbers.

They're not small numbers.

We don't know anything

for certain, right? This is just talk.

Right.

So let's go find out.

You want to go out there?

What are you doing

in the middle of the road like that?

Just relax, okay? She's not

in your face. I'm in your face.

Unbelievable.

These people are crazy.

Joe, if you want, you can come back

and stay at our place...

until the power

comes back on.

That's okay.

Thanks though.

If you don't want to go home

and be by yourself...

- If he doesn't want to...

- I'm just offering.

Yeah, but he said

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes